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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>Buchan Milne</B>
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<I>Wed Oct 6 15:06:15 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Wednesday, 6 October 2010 07:15:15 Raphaël Jadot wrote:
><i> 2010/10/6 Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>>:
</I>><i> > I do. I even update them more often. And you would be surprised to see
</I>><i> > that it doesn't create as much problem as you can think, if the sysadmin
</I>><i> > is competent enough.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> However many small companies can't pay a competent enough sysadmin.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's why they often choose what seems for them the most simple solution.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I certainly don't know which is the best for a distro, but as long as
</I>><i> there will be so much sweat and "fear" about upgrading a distro, there
</I>><i> will be this recurrent discussion.
</I>
Without changing anything else, just changing from a "release, with QA'd
updates, and non-QA'd backports-based distribution" to a "rolliing release",
IMHO you are just changing the problem from "fear about upgrading distro" to
"fear about installing or upgrading any package". The risk moves from being a
biannual event with release notes and errata, to a constant event with no fixed
answers.
If you disagree, run cooker for > 6 months with 'urpmi --auto-update' in
cron.daily. If you never have *any* issues, without any breakage at all, I
might believe you.
(I have run cooker on my "production desktop" for a number of years, but not
in the past 15 months as I haven't been able to risk breakage due to time
pressure - plus I'm a bit short on bandwidth)
><i> I know that they have not as much users as mandriva do, and also they
</I>><i> are young, but unity linux started with the idea of a small core with
</I>><i> long term release, and branches that add packages such as desktop, wm,
</I>><i> de etc. that can have a short term release.
</I>
Remember of course that Unity leverages the *existing* (source) packages from
Mandriva. However, I haven't actually used a Unity release, so I am not sure
how well upgrading has worked over a > 1 year period.
Regards,
Buchan
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